Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Scones and Tea

I'm planning a Dead Southern Belle Tea Party for my birthday (it falls on Thursday but I'm having the party on Friday), which of course got me thinking about tea party foods. The first thing that came to mind was scones. But rather than wait until Friday, I decided to whip up a batch last Sunday night to eat for breakfast throughout the week. I searched for scone recipes in my cookbooks and settled on these Banana Date Scones from the Veganomicon:

In the past, my experience with scones has only been so-so. The ones I've eaten (all in my pre-vegan days) have seemed dry and heavy. But these scones were super-duper moist thanks to the mashed banana.

They also contain chopped dates, pecans (which I subbed for the walnuts in the recipe), and no sugar! That's right, no sugar. They're sweetened with brown rice syrup, and since I subbed whole wheat pastry flour for all the flour in the recipe, they're actually pretty healthy. I've been eating these with leftover pumpkin sausage (from the freezer) and iced green tea each morning.

Ooooh pumpkin sausage... how did I miss that one!That tea party sounds hysterical!Dead southern belles are the best kind. ;PI personally am in love with ginger scones (average scone recipe with crystallized ginger.) And veganyumyum has a recipe for vegan clotted cream.

first of all-pumpkin sausage? link to that post? secondly, happy almost birthday, LUV the dead southern belle tea party-(you must post pics), and lastly great scones!ps-thanks for the compliments on my boy. don't know how we managed to make something so adorable!

hope you have a great birthday tomorrow! and a tea party...what a good idea. i haven't been a fan of scones either before I was vegan..i thought they were too dry and bland, but all the ones i've had since being vegan have been better! haha i'll have to make those from veganomicon. :)

Ooo now I want to make those! I love scones but I agree some are way too dry. I like the ones from ED&BV. What a good idea about keeping the sausage in the freezer, mine usually disapears within a couple days =0